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I've stopped using Google and moved to DDG not because of privacy, but because the results on Google just seem the same everytime even when I use different wording, making it feel like Google has been becoming a "recommendation engine" rather than a "search engine".

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If you feel like Google is excluding certain keywords you very much like to include, you can wrap the word/sentence in double quotes, this tells Google to show results that certainly include these keywords.

For example, searching: "word x" "sentence a" would prompt Google to show only pages that include both the word and the sentence in the same page.

If only. It's a bit more fuzzy than that now.

Nope! :)

Its actually part of the syntax of search queries for google. That said, it still isn't always the best results.

That's anecdotally false. I've had Google use synonyms for words I put in quotes instead of the words themselves.

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